On Constants
I think constants are evil (just joking but….I will explain why). I am tired of seeing a lot…
Category: Software
Comments are evil?
In the 1980 comments were used to reduce the “gap” between unstructured code and “rationale” behind the code.…
UTF-8 and Unicode Standards
Character encoding is a very bad beast when you write code, but UTF-8 will save us. Belive me:…
Detecting Agile bullshit
The department of defense, has published a nice document to “detect” agile bullshit. The document is called DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05…
Exploring a 23 years old code base: LambdaMoo MUD Part 2
In this second article I will continue my jorney on LambdaMoo code base. The C code is very…
Exploring a 23 years old code base: LambdaMoo MUD Part 1
On these days my greek daemon (the one which talk to me about deep nerd programming) was interested…
Meltdown and Spectre
Meltdown and Spectre are two big vulnearbilities found in Intel and AMD chips out of there. The vulenarbility…
Vjdbc
Vjdbc is a remote access for JDBC-Datasources developed more then ten years ago (last news are from 2007,…
Oracle SQL Developer Keep Alive plugin
On some environment, on some customers, Oracle connections are drop after some idle time (i.e. 2 minutes). I…
La mia esperienza nell’open source
Nel 2011, per studiare node js creai un progetto chiamato OrgModeParser. Org Mode è un package per l’editor…
AngularJS alterantive: Micro JavaScript framework on the 2017
AngularJS is indeed a good framework, but if you lose some grip on it (i.e. you go in…
OOP is the your new legacy
Today I took a light rail with my son, to bring him to school. That tram is 90…
I am smarter syndrome
Sometimes in University I found bold young guy saying something like: I will reimplement this in machine language…
BBC Micro bit: first look
The BBC Micro bit an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in…
Licenze OSS: cartina tornasole
In ambito Open source vi sono innumerevoli licenze disponibili. Quali sono le loro differenze salienti? Come orientarsi? In…